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Francesco Stabili, known as Cecco d’Ascoli, was a medieval poet, astrologer and natural scientist. He wrote L’Acerba, an Italian poetic encyclopedia, between 1324 and 1327. This copy was made in northern Italy in the second half of the fourteenth century and is illustrated with ninety individual pictures and diagrams and over one hundred enlarged initials decorated with elaborate pen flourishes. This beautifully illustrated copy is a treasure of the Italian trecento, uniting medieval science, religion and vernacular literature, and despite being declared heretical, its ongoing influence contributed to the Italian Renaissance.